From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Request to design a braking inertia control unit to resolve issues with damper loads on Bentley cars for different markets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 151\2\ scan0294 | |
| Date | 13th June 1936 | |
| -2- Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les.4/KW.13.6.36. We should like you to prepare a design for a braking inertia control built inside the governor unit, as we hope this will enable us to avoid using such high initial damper loads on cars going to France. At the moment we are criticised on the Bentley in England for the initial damper load being too hard, and in France it is considered too soft. We are therefore searching for a solution to a car which is set for English conditions being satisfactory for the Continent. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les. | ||